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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Roosevelt accuse Moses of lying to?

2. What does Emanuel own in New Haven?

3. What country did Moses' grandparents immigrate from?

4. What sport does Moses want to sponsor?

5. Which of Moses' Allies runs for President in 1928?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Le Guardia and Roosevelt outsmart Moses in Part 6, Chapter 29?

2. In what way do La Guardia and Moses not have a smooth relationship?

3. How does Part 4, Chapter 21 show how Moses holds grudges?

4. Descirbe Moses' time at Oxford.

5. How does Moses ensure that his park cannot be accessed by poor people?

6. How did New York and its people benefit from the Roaring Twenties?

7. Describe Moses' mother, Bella.

8. How does Moses get revenge on La Guardia and Roosevelt following his defeat over the tunnel project in Brooklyn?

9. Describe Robert Moses's time at Yale.

10. How does Moses manage to reestablish his dream to develop Long Island parks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Caro's point of view.

1) How does Caro present Moses in his book?

2) In what can Moses claim that Caro's point of view was unfair and some of the information he presented was unsubstantiated?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the structure of the book.

1) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's ideas?

2) Aside from Robert Moses, examine the way Caro uses the other people in the story to express his point of view.

Essay Topic 3

Examine Caro's writing style. How would you describe her prose style? What kind of vocabulary does she use? Does she use any specific writing techniques? What meaning does Caro's style give to his story?

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